Reforms often fail because politics favors symbols over…

If you attempt to implement reforms but fail to engage the culture of a school, nothing will change.

— Seymour Sarason

“At root, they fail to appreciate that the basic nature of the law and the police, since its earliest origins, is to be a…

— Alex Vitale

If the Iraqis fail to implement the reforms, if they fail to get a handle on the violence, there's nothing the United States can…

— Leon Panetta

The symbol is greater than visible substance. . . . Unhappy the land that has no symbols, or that chooses their meaning without great care.

— Freya Stark

We are … the un-proud non-possessors of objects whose chief substance is that of the transient symbol. Our Puritan fear of the love of…

— Ralph Caplan

The only requirement of a symbol is that it have substance underneath: The first thing to do is to try to establish the substance.…

— Wally Olins

Facts of experience are valued in Zen more than representations, symbols, and concepts-that is to say, substance is everything in Zen and form nothing.

— D.T. Suzuki

Slovakia's joining the OECD in 1999 is totally dependent on meeting economic reforms required such as transparency and legislation that permits fair and open…

— John Mica

The main part of the Hyde bill is to withhold U.S. contributions to the regular assessed budget of the U.N. unless they make real…

— Cliff Stearns

The task for Germany today is - through its own policies and its own structural reforms, its own investments - to support the EU…

— Sigmar Gabriel

“Achieving such deep and liquid markets requires large-scale financial sector reforms, with a complete replacement of the existing regulatory framework.”

— Bibek Debroy

Since China embraced Deng Xiaoping's reforms on 22 December 1978, China has experimented with different exchange-rate regimes. Until 1994, the yuan was in an…

— Steve Hanke

It is also right that we continue to consult with front line workers and the public to ensure that targets are reasonable and achievable,…

— John Hutton

Educational reforms are like ripe fruit. They rarely travel well.

— Andy Hargreaves

Expect the rapidly expanding homeschooling movement to play a significant role in the revolutionary reforms needed to build a free society with Constitutional protections.

— Ron Paul